Come on Pilgrimage

Come on pilgrimage.
Let us walk together
the road of life.
We will go on
well trodden paths,
and also open us new ways.
We will seek,
we will search,
we will rejoice,
and perhaps we will sing.

You cannot come as an onlooker,
that leaves you on the outside,
yet still influencing us,
as we influence you.
Come and share your experiences,
your sorrows and your joys.
If your prayer has gone dead,
your God is too small,
your vision too narrow,
Come journey into new depths,
let life be an adventure.

Come and participate,
come and discover -
we will go to
strange places,
we may even meet dragons.
But we do not journey alone
we go together
along the road
and our God goes with us.

(David Adam in The Road of Life: Reflections on Searching and Longing)